Friday, October 31 was the last opportunity for early voting at the Vanderburgh County Libraries! However, early voting for all Vanderburgh County residents continues at the Election Office in Room 214 of the City County Building through Monday, November...

The people at the Browning Family Foundation, who brought you the Browning Genealogy Database (Evansville area newspaper obituaries) and contributed to the Local History Database , have constructed 3 more historical databases to help local history buffs...

Central Library Reference has several directories to identify physicians and their specialties: America's Top Doctors is a guide to doctors recognized by their peers for their excellence in providing care for specific diseases and problems, organized...

This resource allows you to enter a city name or zip code, then on the subsequent map, get the mailing address of any point on that map. The number of ways that various websites use Google maps is really incredible. There are blogs devoted to sharing...

If you're not sure that you're registered to vote, or you want to double check the location of your Election Day polling place, go to the Indiana Statewide Voter Registration System . Click on "Voter Registration" and you will be asked...

Ever wonder how a rainbow is formed? Better yet, have you ever argued with someone as to whether or not something is indeed a rainbow at all? This and many other natural phenomenon are presented with full illustrations on a UK website for a group called...

On Wednesday, October 15th, the Metropolitian Evansville Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting on the second floor of Central Library to open a new, business-focused area of Central's reference and non-fiction collections. Business Central is...

An earlier post to this blog about early voting must've helped to get the message out, because the turnout has just been phenomenal! Still, a number of people coming to the Information Desk at Central Library have asked if there is a place to do early...

There are a couple of good websites that outline the Sen. McCain's and Sen. Obama's stands on the issues. First, of course, are their own websites: http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/ http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ Recommended third...

The League of Women Voters of Southwestern Indiana has pulled together local election information on its website at www.lwvswin.org . There you can find information about early voting at the Vanderburgh and Warrick county libraries, in addition to links...

AquaBrowser, an alternative interface for searching our online catalog, will be discontinued on Monday, October 27. At that time, the Classic Catalog will be the only way to search our catalog. We'll soon be implementing a new search interface in...

Beginning today and running through October 31, Vanderburgh County residents may vote early at several of our EVPL locations: Central Library, McCollough Branch, North Park Branch, Oaklyn Branch, and Red Bank Branch. The hours are Monday through Thursday...

If you did not file a 2007 tax return for tax purposes, you still need to file a return by October 15, 2008 in order to receive an economic stimulus payment. You are eligible for a payment if you had a total of $3,000 or more in qualifying income. How...

Ever since launching our new website on May 1, we've been implementing minor tweaks based on feedback from patrons and staff. One suggestion I've received regularly was to make our digital materials easier to locate. As of this morning, our "Virtual...

If many of you out there are like me, you have hundreds of books sitting on your bookshelf at home in a certain order that only you can keep organized (to a point). Personally, I shelf mine chronologically by author according to genre, but I am very OCD...